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If The Creek Don't Rise features live performances of acoustic-based music that reflects traditional folk and "Americana" styles. Instruments include guitar, bass, banjo, recorder, harmonica, and piano, all played by the actors themselves as the action unfolds.


Over fifteen original songs tell the stories of eight generations of people who lived along the National Road. Featured songs include:

National Road

Folk, sung by Ben in "present day"

You Can Change This Land

Anthem, sung by a Shawnee girl who married a white settler in the early 1800's

Small Kindnesses

Folk, sung by an escaped slave who was protected by white friends in the 1840s

A Mother's Eyes

Ballad, sung by a woman who started a hospital in her home during the Civil War.

We'll Know it When We See it

Western, sung by a pioneer family in the late 1800's

Yellow and Green are the
Colors I Wear

Celtic, sung by an Irish immigrant girl in the late 1800s

What Are They Thinking

Barbershop, sung by a witness to the Wright Brothers' early efforts

If the Creek Don't Rise

Hoedown, sung by midwestern farmers in the early 1900s

Fish in the Corn

Folk, sung by a young farmgirl in the early 1900s

Long and Open Highway

Bluegrass, sung by a band of hobos during the Depression

I'll Never Be the Same

Gospel, sung at a camp meeting just prior to WWII

Who Taught You How/Invisible Son

Pop, sung by a family reeling from the "generation gap" in the 1960s

Heart of the Heartland

Folk, sung by an "exiled" playwright in the early 1990s

Carry the Flame

Anthem, sung by the family in "modern day"

Each song is arranged for performance using traditional folk instruments with the occasional addition of piano, bass, and drums. In addition, a piano arrangement of each song has been prepared for practice purposes.

If you would like to view lyrics and hear complete MIDI arrangements of these tunes, please contact us for more information.


Paul Race playing a banjo. Click to go to Paul's music home page.Whatever else you get out of our pages, I hope you come away with some great ideas for "sharing the joy."

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